Opinion

Time for presidential candidates to tell us more than what their dreams are The setting of the stage for the forthcoming presidential elections is slowly being completed. Fortunately, there is ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The exit of the UK from the EU remains at the forefront of public interest and continues to divide. The main provisions of the ...

The targeted measures for helping ‘vulnerable’ families deal with soaring inflation, announced by finance minister Constantinos Petrides on Friday, should be seen more as a gesture of help rather an ...

PREZ NIK has been taken over by a Turk-bashing mood in the last couple days, reinforcing my unjustified suspicion that he is considering seeking a third term. On Saturday morning ...

It is astonishing that in the year 2022 that deputies are discussing whether the names of person’s parents should be included on identity cards. What is even more astonishing is ...

As long as authorities stay bogged down in the minutiae, traffic cams will see more delays Reading about the cascade of failures across the new traffic cams system is like ...

After receiving the go-ahead for ‘dynamic measures’ from the overwhelming majority of its membership, the bank employees’ union Etyk announced a 24-hour warning strike at Hellenic Bank. Etyk’s executive ...

By Paul Lambis Following all the buzz surrounding this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, Ukraine emerged victorious, thanks to the enormous support from the European public who voted by phone, ...

“Well, my dear, we didn’t know where to look. The old codger was getting away with it again, fielding the questions like a man only nine-tenths of his age, ...

‘A company that cooperates with the CIA based in Cyprus,’ read the headline of a report which appeared in a daily newspaper on Tuesday. The suggestion was that this was ...

Everyone is waiting to hear what the government plans to do about the rising prices that have hit living standards and do not look like falling any time soon. President ...

The EU’s €210bn plan is far-reaching but Cyprus is woefully behind In addition to its plan to stop using Russian oil, the EU has gone further, trying to grasp ...

By Achilleas Demetriades There is a protracted impasse when it comes to the Cyprus problem. We are faced with the worst situation since the invasion, one step before partition. Many ...

Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus and Russia’s of Ukraine are not the same With regard to my article of last Sunday, while many people have contacted me to congratulate ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin will almost certainly not be in power three years from now. The war he foolishly began in Ukraine has fatally undermined his political credibility among the ...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has breathed new life into the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Collective self-defence under Nato’s umbrella protects Europe and North America from shared enemies in ...

A video, showing a bulldozer clearing a stretch of the beach front in the fenced-off part Varosha while workers were placing sunbeds, sparked the inevitable uproar among Greek Cypriots, all ...

By Peter Apps If Western leaders were surprised to see Turkey throw a diplomatic wrench into plans to admit Finland and Sweden into Nato, they should not have been. Throughout ...

THE PUBLIC Service Commission (PSC), which appoints and promotes public employees, according to the diktats of the government and political parties, is one of Kyproulla’s most ludicrous institutions. While ...

By Ioannis Tirkides The European Commission has recently published its spring forecasts for the European Union, for the bloc as a whole and also by country, over a two-year horizon. ...

During the pandemic, the government would often defend the restrictions it was imposing by citing what was happening in other EU countries. This was used as emphatic proof that it ...

By Stephen Lillie Peace and stability have been hard-won in Northern Ireland. So much of the progress we have seen rests on the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement, which marked the ...

Political leaders of Cyprus praised the speech given by Greece’s Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis to the joint session of US Congress. They were impressed by his references to the ...

On Wednesday morning the sheep and goat farmers arrived outside the presidential palace to protest about the government’s failure to ensure the PDO specs for halloumi were followed by ...